The Beta 2.9 question again.

2007-08-31 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Joking apart, there is a very serious question about this for Linux users. I mean, those of us on Linux exclusively, not those who have the Linux version incidentally as part of the Enterprise package. 2.6.1 was great in its day, but the alternatives have moved on a lot in two years. As

Re: Gradients, math and graphs

2007-08-31 Thread David Bovill
On 30/08/2007, Josh Mellicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you sure it wouldn't be faster to create the buttons in Fireworks? :-) Hmmm... I did a test. To render the gradient took 4.326 milliseconds while Fireworks took 8 minutes to download and $299 :) Seriously though I know your a big fan

Re: Send email with attachment

2007-08-31 Thread Derek Bump
Bill, You're welcome. I just tried the MIME suggestion I had, but I'm having no luck getting it to work. It relies on headers, which a mailto:; will not let you specify (other than subject, to and cc). What you may try is using a VBScript or Windows Scripting Host. While they may provide a

is drawer broken in Rev 2.8.1?

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello friends, is drawer broken on 2.8.1 release? When I move the parent stack, it loses the drawer stack... it becomes a floating round thingy Any clue? andre ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Send email with attachment

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Garzia
Bill, coming late to this thread, are you on mac or windows? on macs you can use applescript for that. Andre On 8/31/07, Derek Bump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, You're welcome. I just tried the MIME suggestion I had, but I'm having no luck getting it to work. It relies on headers, which

Re: canceling a wait with messages call...

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Garzia
Thanks all for the messages! What I am doing is mixing async and sync behaviors. I want the network access to go async so that it doesn't block the ui or the application but I want the handler that started the async call to be stopped while the transaction is happening. The script is a Bills of

Re: is drawer broken in Rev 2.8.1?

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Garzia
it is a bug in my code... tested another drawer stack I have here and it worked fine... hate bugs. Thanks! On 8/31/07, Mark Schonewille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre, Do you mean that your drawer stack worked fine before? AFAIK there have always been problems with drawers. Best regards,

Re: is drawer broken in Rev 2.8.1?

2007-08-31 Thread Mark Schonewille
Andre, Do you mean that your drawer stack worked fine before? AFAIK there have always been problems with drawers. Best regards, Mark Schonewille -- Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering http://economy-x-talk.com http://www.salery.biz Quickly extract data from your HyperCard

Re: trouble with standalone valentina

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Garzia
Robert, Valentina is not my main expertise but Ruslan is very friendly and always help! :-) He probably can help you! Cheers andre On 8/29/07, Robert Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The _customKeyVSCR is working properly this is later used to check paypal payment which is working, The problem

Re: https Help Needed

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey Scott, what about the following workflow, using that curl try: if the url is HTTPS try: curl -v -k -X HEAD your URL this will just send back the header portion of a call to that url. This is good because you have the Content-Lenght and then you can later call: curl -v -k your URL and

Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Is there a way to obtain the MAC address of a server from a client machine on a Windows LAN? Some web research suggests that the arp command will give what I want, but when I run it in the command line it says there are no arp entries, even if I successfully ping the server first. --

Re: is drawer broken in Rev 2.8.1?

2007-08-31 Thread Scott Morrow
Bug 4738 describes this condition. It appears only to effect OSX 3.x and below... so testing on an Intel Mac won't show this (unless it is something to do with your code : ) I would invite people to vote for this bug. While drawers were never perfect they did have some basic reliable

Export Snapshot - documentation issues

2007-08-31 Thread David Bovill
I'm trying to get my head round the latest on export snapshot... it seems there are a bunch of posts regarding memory leaks and syntax problems. Certainly you can't use the syntax specified in the docs - such as relative rects with the object form... so looking for some advice. Lets take a

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Garzia
Jacque, I don't know how to find a remote mac address, but a local windows mac address you can use: ipconfig /all and parse it. I think that to touch such low level info as MAC Addresses you may need some raw C/C++ code to socket structures. On 8/31/07, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: is drawer broken in Rev 2.8.1?

2007-08-31 Thread Andre Garzia
Scott, I don't know if this problem and the one I was experiencing is indeed the same but I managed to make my drawers stick to their stack. I found that it is all related to who issued the drawer command in the first place. My drawer call was on the drawer stack itself, it was something like:

Re: Export Snapshot - documentation issues

2007-08-31 Thread David Bovill
A few experiments later and it seems the message is that the docs are wrong - firstly there seems no point using of object form, instead use only of window windowID. Also the docs are wrong in that you don't need the stack to be topmost - so the following script seems to work fine at the

Re: Export Snapshot - documentation issues

2007-08-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, David Bovill wrote: A few experiments later and it seems the message is that the docs are wrong - firstly there seems no point using of object form, instead use only of window windowID. If I understand what you're saying, one syntax form for an object is: import snapshot

Re: Export Snapshot - documentation issues

2007-08-31 Thread David Bovill
On 31/08/2007, Scott Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I understand what you're saying, one syntax form for an object is: import snapshot from rect (rect of obj) of obj This imports a snapshot of the object to the card using the object as the source. The reason for doing this is it grabs

Re: Export Snapshot - documentation issues

2007-08-31 Thread David Bovill
getprop object_SnapShot [imageType] put the long id of the target into targetObject put the stack_Object of targetObject into stackObject put the windowid of stackObject into wID put the rect of targetObject into localRect switch imageType case Transparent

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread chris bohnert
Jacque, Using XP home and the command: arp -a works here as long as I perform the requisite ping and pause briefly to let the arp cache update. -- cb On 8/31/07, J. Landman Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to obtain the MAC address of a server from a client machine on a Windows

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Andre Garzia wrote: Jacque, I don't know how to find a remote mac address, but a local windows mac address you can use: ipconfig /all Thanks. I'm already doing that locally but now I need to get it from a remote machine. and parse it. I think that to touch such low level info as MAC

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
J. Landman Gay wrote: Is there a way to obtain the MAC address of a server from a client machine on a Windows LAN? Some web research suggests that the arp command will give what I want, but when I run it in the command line it says there are no arp entries, even if I successfully ping the

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
chris bohnert wrote: Jacque, Using XP home and the command: arp -a works here as long as I perform the requisite ping and pause briefly to let the arp cache update. Thanks, that's what I read on the web too. I think I am going to have to write this blind and let the testers try it out.

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
J. Landman Gay wrote: From what I read, the arp command is supposed to get what I need but I can't make it work. I think that's because my server is a Mac. If I had a Windows-only network it might work but I don't know how to test it with my current setup. :( I very much doubt that :-)

Re: Export Snapshot - documentation issues

2007-08-31 Thread Tereza Snyder
On Aug 31, 2007, at 2:54 PM, David Bovill wrote: Lets take a specific example - the aim is to take a picture of an arbitrary group. ... Hi David, I use: import snapshot from grp my grp and export snapshot from grp test to file test.png as PNG to get what you say you're after. No

Re: Export Snapshot - documentation issues

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Wood
On 31 Aug 2007, at 23:47, Tereza Snyder wrote: I use: import snapshot from grp my grp and export snapshot from grp test to file test.png as PNG to get what you say you're after. No rects about it. Am I missing something? Nope, that's what I use as well. Ian

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alex Tweedly wrote: allow a few seconds after the ping before trying it (should update within one second unless there are some funny config changes on the machine). remember that it will not work on wifi networks, and will only work on a simple LAN (i.e. no router between client and server)

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
Alex Tweedly wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: From what I read, the arp command is supposed to get what I need but I can't make it work. I think that's because my server is a Mac. If I had a Windows-only network it might work but I don't know how to test it with my current setup. :( I very

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread Luis
Run ifconfig on the server, plop the output into a text file on a shared folder, examine said shared file. Or, if possible, email the text file and then parse. If you have permission to run a remote shell, then you can run that in directly from the remote end. ARP info from:

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread Stephen Barncard
Perhaps I'm being naive, but couldn't you use the splash screen technique for the remote 'clients'? The executable on each station could launch the main stack on the network after getting the MAC address Then that's a problem too. My app creates a serial key that is registered to a

Re: Remote MAC address on Windows

2007-08-31 Thread Luis
Ah, on Windows. Tried netstat ? I'm not in front of a Windows box at the moment, and I can't recall if the output includes the MAC address info. And note, arp is pretty much useless if it's not in the same subnet. Cheers, Luis. J. Landman Gay wrote: Alex Tweedly wrote: J. Landman Gay

Re: is drawer broken in Rev 2.8.1?

2007-08-31 Thread Scott Morrow
Hello Andre, I retested to be sure that I was calling the drawer from the main stack but still no luck in OSX below 10.4 I notice you used the form drawer stack Attribute editor at right of stack HTML Editor I have found that the word of is not reliable and that in (drawer stack